U.S. Can't Reunite All Immigrant Toddlers by Tuesday Deadline

Posted - July 13 201811:49

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U.S. Can't Reunite All Immigrant Toddlers by Tuesday Deadline

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The administration faces a second, bigger deadline - July 26 - to reunite about 2,000 older children who were also separated from their families at the border in the past few months. But only 56 out of about 85 children under five who are eligible for reunification will have been reunited with their parents by the Tuesday deadline.

The separations stem from Trump's "zero-tolerance" policy calling for the prosecution of all immigrants who illegally crossed into the United States at the southwest border.

"The Trump administration was ordered to reunite more than 100 children with their parents by today", Rep. Pramila Jayapal noted in a tweet on Tuesday. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar released this statement Thursday morning: "Dedicated teams at the Departments of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and Justice have worked tirelessly to ensure the safety of Ms. L class members". Throughout the reunification process, Sabraw has been strict on the government in his attempts to reunite the families. In the courtroom, they expressed openness to collaborating on several issues, including searching for parents who have been removed from the US and double-checking the criminal records.

Sabraw approved on Tuesday the ACLU's suggested legal notice that will be provided to immigrant parents, which explains they have a right to be reunited and remain in the country to pursue asylum.

But my mid June, when the government admitted that more than 2,000 children had been separated while their parents were held in detention awaiting court dates, the administration came under pressure to rescind it. They said an additional 17 could also join their parents if DNA results arrived and a criminal background check on a parent was completed by day's end.

The separations - which also involve somewhere under 3,000 older children - have sparked global outrage and considerable confusion. The court has set a July 26 deadline for those children to be reunified. The human services department on July 10 said records showed the parent and child "might be us citizens". "Apply lawfully and wait your turn", the officials said.

The reunions are expected to be carried out in secret or secure locations, with parents taken from the detention centers where they have been held and children brought from federal shelters or foster homes.

Sabraw showed little appetite for giving more time to the government unless it could show good reasons in specific cases.

Another 22 were found to be ineligible for reunification due to safety concerns (most often because their parents had a serious criminal record), there were worries about abuse or the adults they were supposed to be reunified with weren't their parents.

That chaos was underscored on Tuesday by the government's struggle to comply with the court order in San Diego to reunite children under the age of five with their families.

Mr Ortiz said he was separated from his three-year-old son Andre for three months and refused to go back to Guatemala unless he could take his son. Leon Fresco, a former senior Justice Department immigration lawyer, said putting ankle bracelets on migrants is a return to what the Trump administration itself has described as catch and release; ending its practice was a top priority of the labour union that represents Border Patrol agents and endorsed Trump's candidacy. Forty-six were "acknowledged by the court to be ineligible for reunification or determined by HHS, DHS and DOJ to be ineligible under court-approved criteria". "They are just using children!" he said.

On Thursday, the government will give the court a progress report on the younger children and whether it expects to meet the deadline for the older group.

"But until I have both my children with me, I don't know what I will do", she said.

Federal officials have been scrambling to reunite the children under the deadline set by Sabraw.

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